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prioritize working with business of color, as we see this as a key role to support racial equity in our community. Please quantify the racial diversity (percent composition by race and ethnicity) of your workforce serving the Roseville region of your operations. Our drivers have the following ethnicity: 63.4% White, 26.8% Black, 7.3% Hispanic, and 2.4% undefined. Our drivers do rotate to some extent between the various cities that we serve, so it makes more sense to include our entire driving staff in the composition percentage. Our MRF Operations team has the following percentages of composition: 80% Hispanic, 18.3% White, and 1.7% Black. We can provide more ethnicity information if requested, such as the composition of our administration and customer service teams. Please summarize the means of providing equitable hiring and fair compensation of the workforce at the MRF where Recyclables collected from Roseville will be processed. We follow the same hiring practices for our MRF employees as we do in all other departments of the organization. We start by focusing on advertising for posted positions in a wide array of places, including sites where we will be able to draw candidates of color. We allow candidates to apply online or on paper onsite to remove any barriers in regards to computer use. We utilize a fair scoring system for determining if candidates have the skills and/or experience required, while actively seeking to hire candidates that will add to the diversity of our MRF employee base. We consistently update our pay bands and, particularly for operations positions, we have a starting pay designated for each position in the MRF, with increases available on an annual bases based on performance and longevity in the company. All of our staff are paid at least a living wage with benefits as defined by the City of Minneapolis Living Wage Ordinance. Eureka covers 100% of employee health insurance premiums as well as other benefits and all staff have paid time off. Is this MRF workforce permanent staff with benefits? EYes ❑ No Please elaborate, including the percent of staff that is permanent or temporary: We operate our entire organization, including the MRF, with full time, benefitted employees and competitive wages. We use temporary labor only as an occasional recruitment tool, and the current average tenure on our MRF team is 5.8 years. Many of our MRF employees have worked at Eureka Recycling for 12-15 years. Due to expanding the numbers of the staff in the MRF, this means we also have several new employees, which brings down the average tenure a bit. We are very proud of our ability to retain employees in the MRF, resulting in a highly skilled workforce. If there is additional information you would like to share about your organizations DEI efforts, please include that here or attach additional sheets as necessary: NA- everything is included in our answers provided above. RFP for City of Roseville Recycling Services • D-21